True Colors in My Ordinary World
Nat Damon
A warm testament to the power and importance of human belonging taking place at the dawn of the internet age.
- ISBN 9781781329191
- Published May 2020
- 198 x 129mm (216 pages)
Claire doesn’t care about how she looks at school, what she said at the Valentine’s Day dance, or whether the radio is tuned to Madonna or Cyndi Lauper. But she always knows exactly what time it is, what she had for lunch last Wednesday, and the lyrics to every 80s pop song ever recorded.
True Colors in My Ordinary World is the everyday story of a girl whose cognitive disability gives her an extraordinary sense of what some might call mindfulness. Claire’s family loves her deeply, and she has lots of friends, but it’s her open heart and her deep capacity for insight that make her remarkable. Wisdom can often be found in unexpected places.
Based on a true story of American family life, True Colors in My Ordinary World is a warm testament to the power and importance of human belonging taking place at the dawn of the internet age.
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Nat Damon is a writer and educator living in London and Los Angeles, CA. He published a book about teaching,
Time to Teach: Time to Reach – Expert Teachers Give Voice to the Power of Relational Teaching (Relational Schools Foundation, Cambridge, UK, 2018) and he is the Founding Director of Reach Academics LLC, which serves to strengthen the relationships between all members of K-12 school communities.
Nat grew up in a family of six outside of Boston, MA. He was an English teacher and school administrator for two decades. All the while, he wrote books and screenplays. Nat received a Master’s in English Literature from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and taught in schools in both Massachusetts and California.
While not writing or consulting, Nat often finds himself sailing in Nantucket Sound, traveling to remote areas of the world, or actively involved in organizations aimed at giving voice to the marginalized. This is Nat’s first published work of fiction.
"Claire is able to see through the superficial to what is going on inside someone else, or what really matters in a situation, and this makes her a poignant and powerful narrator. Through this book I was able to reflect on the gifts each person has an how important the small details of family life are." - Saffia Farr, Juno magazine
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